Feature request - Include S.M.A.R.T. for local hard drives

[KrashDummy]

Hi.

One feature about Clonezilla I appreciate is that in the cloned
diskimage folder, it also put HW info for the particular computer.

Still, it does not include S.M.A.R.T. data (or so I cannot find at
last). Therefore I'd suggest adding smartctl -a for each storage
device and dump it into a text file in the disk image folder.

Thanks a lot for a very good tool

[Steven Shiau]

Thanks for this idea.
Absolutely. We will add this in the next testing release.

Steven

[Steven Shiau]

Please give testing Clonezilla live 2.6.8-15 or 20200929-* a try:
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
With these versions, when an image is saved, a plain text file called "Info-smart.txt" will be put in the image dir. It contains the output of "smartctl -a".
Please let us know the results. Thanks.

Steven

[KrashDummy]

Sorry for late reply - I just had time this week to test. And yes that works just nice.

Thank you very much.

I wasn't able to get s.m.a.r.t. data from a ub3 hdd (used to mount /home and storage for disk image files) - but none distros I tested so far was able to get the smart data from the external drive using the "disks" utiliy

[Steven Shiau]

Thanks for your feedback. Once the newer modules from Linux kernel is available for your hardware, I believe the SMART data will be available.

Steven